Editors' Review

Pros

Excellent tutorial: Carbon Copy Cloner's tutorial completely removes any intimidation you may have from performing this type of operation.

Clean interface: Carbon Copy Cloner is easy to use and navigate.

Smart updates feature: This feature greatly reduces the time and storage space needed to perform a backup. The Smart Updates seamlessly works to only update files that you've actually changed since the last time you backed up your system.

Cons

High cost: The only real drawback to the app is that at $40, it is expensive. There are free tools out there that allow you to back up your system fairly easily.

Bottom Line

Although costly, Carbon Copy Cloner certainly performs its function well. It is easy to use and backs up your system in a fast and efficient manner.

Editors' note: This is a review of the trial version of Carbon Copy Cloner for Mac 4.0.6.

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Publisher's Description

Carbon Copy Cloner backups are better than ordinary backups. Suppose the unthinkable happens while you're under deadline to finish a project - your Mac is unresponsive and all you hear is an ominous, repetitive clicking noise coming from its hard drive. With ordinary backups, you'll spend your day rushing out to a store to buy a new hard drive and then sit in front of your computer reinstalling the operating system and restoring data.

With Carbon Copy Cloner, your data and the operating system's data are all preserved impeccably on a bootable volume, ready for production at a moment's notice. When disaster strikes, simply boot from your backup and get back to business. Replace the failed hard drive at your convenience, and then restore all of your stuff in one easy step.

Addressed an issue in which CCC would fail to send an email notification at the end of a backup task, and subsequently fail to record the task event in Task History.

Time Zone changes that do not have a net effect on the wall time will no longer cause a task to be rescheduled. Additionally, tasks scheduled to run on an hourly basis will no longer be rescheduled to the original hour start time (vs. the next hourly run time adjusted for the time zone change) when a time zone chan...
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Addressed an issue in which CCC would fail to send an email notification at the end of a backup task, and subsequently fail to record the task event in Task History.

Time Zone changes that do not have a net effect on the wall time will no longer cause a task to be rescheduled. Additionally, tasks scheduled to run on an hourly basis will no longer be rescheduled to the original hour start time (vs. the next hourly run time adjusted for the time zone change) when a time zone change occurs.